Position: AI Agents in Scientific Teams Should Be Studied as Human-Agent Systems

arXiv cs.AIAugust 18, 2026en

arXiv:2608.14667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model-based agents are increasingly deployed as collaborators in scientific discovery yet most current work focuses on the autonomous capabilities of "AI Scientists". We argue that this overlooks the social aspects of scientific teamwork, and that studying AI Scientists as human-agent systems (HAS)--where the unit of analysis is the human-agent pair--is both underexplored and undervalued. We establish these points through literature and empirical analysis, and highlight recent incidences and studies which show that deploying agents in science without accounting for human-agent dynamics introduces near-term risks, including reduce

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